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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
1
Charity Organization Society head Supt Grout faces a dilemma distinguishing foreigners in need from those living off aid. Scouts report foreigners at barrooms on KF and W Washington Sts spending money on liquor while claiming hunger, prompting plans to form gangs with a local chief to oversee each group.
George Gray sued Knickerbocker Ice Company of Wolfe Lake. Supreme Court Judge Montgomery affirmed a $39,000 damages award, preserving a prior reversal. Gray, injured seven years ago at the plant, slipped on a grease slick and lost an arm, a case long argued by top Northern lawyers.
Grover Cleveland, in Lakewood New Jersey, has been confined to his bed at the Hotel Lakewood for ten days due to a cold and rheumatism. His condition is not alarming.
Poughkeepsie New York April 9. Colonel William L Delacey a Civil War era volunteer known as a boy soldier died by suicide using illuminating gas in his home. He served with notable bravery and his passing ends a long life connected to the grand war memory.
A $100000 blaze destroyed the Colonial building at Seventh and Main in Richmond Indiana threatening the business district. Fire Chief Miller and several firefighters were overcome but survived. losses hit Model department store Cunningham paint store Knox Five and dime Elks clubrooms. Officials say spontaneous combustion in the basement sparked the fire.
At the home of Mrs. Gertrude Heather unknown assailant thrust a revolver through a side window and fired Wednesday night. Members of the family fled in panic as the shooter ran from the front gate.
John F. Jenkins died at his home on Wednesday after a long transfer business career. Enlisted at 14 as drummer boy for the Seventy third Indiana regiment. Survived by a widow. Funeral at Holy Angels church Friday at 9 a.m. Gas project planned for Mount Carmel in Vincennes with $70000 capital. construction to begin soon.
A homespun critique of rooming houses with signs in windows describing rooms for rent. It urges using want ads instead, noting signs mar homeliness and tidiness, and cites Roosevelt on a shorter, uglier word. It claims thousands see want ads daily and that the expense is small.
Rev Eugene St Clair of Blue Ridge Springs Virginia and Miss Florence Julia Hager of Clifford Indiana eloped Sunday evening and telegraphed that they were married in Nashville Tennessee.
The Marion County Council meets Saturday divided on allocating funds to hire outside counsel for Prosecutor Hooton in graft prosecutions. Leaders accuse defense lawyers of influencing councilmen and opposing use of public money for prosecutions, despite Judge Pritchard urging expense money. The council plans to cut state helper hiring, risking a lone prosecutor against formidable defense, amid claims of heavy odds.
Hansbrough of North Dakota underwent a successful ear abscess operation at George Washington University Hospital last night. Doctors report his condition favorable.
Robert Baker and Joseph Bennett were fined $1 and costs in police court Thursday on charges of drunkenness and cruelty to animals. They were charged with beating a horse to death on Massachusetts Ave.
Dor othy Dix urges reading in a tale about a wife whose vanity strains marriage and trust. The story warns husbands against spending beyond means to flatter rivals while exposing a jealous mind and the dangers of calf love in a dramatic scene adapted from Henri Bernstein. The excerpt centers on Fernand’s affection for a married woman and Marise Voysin’s attempt to mediate, foreshadowing conflict between lover and husband.
A wealthy Paris area couple, M. and Mme Lagardes, summer at a chateau. Mme Lagarde hands large checks which are cashed by her husband and later found missing from a secretary drawer. Suspicions fall on the secretary after knife marks reveal tampering. the thief remains unknown.
In police court attorney John Bowlus defended Mike Jarras Tony Seaman and George Elster on concealed weapon and loitering charges and won their discharge. He later misidentified Nick Zeras in the crowd and defended him when charged with offending persons of the street, resulting in a $5 fine plus costs.
Chicago reports that thirty six counties are now entirely anti saloon and nineteen more are anti saloon with only one township in each exception, following Tuesday’s local option ballot.
The trial begins April 17 for Gladys Joliv in the Marion county case. Joliv, who killed his daughter June 12 by pouring acid, says he loved his child and felt compelled by a sense of duty. Physicians say his act stemmed from an obsessive mental state, not insanity. A grand jury previously found him not insane at the time of the crime.
A Ben Tur Line car leaving Indianapolis ditched at a Jamestown crossing around 2 pm on Thursday. Several passengers were bruised and James Roberts of Jamestown was seriously injured but not expected to die. The vehicle overturned after being thrown into a duel and lay on its side. In Detroit Mich, April 9 a jury found Percy Bowin not guilty of murdering Mrs Cornelia Welsh, an elderly woman killed months earlier.
In Port Huron Michigan bail for Secretary Treasurer Wilson of the Frome Protectors' Fraternity was cut from 85 to 15000 dollars. He faces charges of embezzling 1000 dollars from Protectors' funds.
City councilman Harry E. Royse, head of the finance committee, says the mayor can hire the unemployed to work on city streets using about 20,000 dollars set aside for unimproved streets. He argues no council permission is needed and urges prompt use of the funds for public employment without more discussion. The mayor must act now.
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